Improving Maintenance Culture And Quality Of Public Properties In Nigeria

Improving Maintenance Culture And Quality Of Public Properties In Nigeria

Chapter One

Preface

Background To The Study

The Advanced Learners Dictionary defines conservation as the process of guarding or conserving someone or commodity, or the process of keeping commodity in good condition. Culture, on the other hand, is a way of life, a life, customs, traditions, habits that portray the attributes of a person/ people.

conservation culture is an station which is sorely lacking in Nigeria, whether in the home, office, academy or plant. Mbamali( 2003) added that poor conservation culture has come a extensively honored problem in Nigeria which has inadequately affected the quality of public parcels.

Public property is property that’s devoted to public use and is a subset of state property. The term may be used either to describe the use to which the property is put, or to describe the character of its power( possessed inclusively by the population of a state). This is in discrepancy to private property, possessed by an individual person or artificial realities that represent the fiscal interests of persons, similar as pots. State power, also called public power, government power or state property, are property interests that are vested in the state, rather than an individual or communities( Wikipedia, 2015).

conservation culture in Nigeria is one of the smallest around the world, especially, in our top municipalities and metropolises where the maturity of public parcels are located. In the pastoral areas, the story is different and affable to hear. The traditional practice of collaborative clearing of community possessed places similar as request playground is in nearly every vill and in private homes. Also, it’s customary to refurbish structure innards with fusions of cow soil or natural red complexion. The end result is seductive and completely indigenous. According to Wahab( 1995) the nation accords low precedence to property operation leading to neglect of public parcels. Mbamali( 2003) asserted that we’ve no conservation policy and thus no similar culture exists. Neglect of conservation has accumulated consequences in rapid-fire increase in the deterioration of the fabric and homestretches of a structure, accompanied by a dangerous effect on the contents inhabitants Seeley,( 1987). shy conservation culture is a peculiar point of nearly every public structure in Nigeria. According to Rotimi and Mtallib( 1995) is incompletely due to poor conservation culture on one hand and incompletely due to the absence of an applicable standard. Gurjit( 1990) asserted that lack of proper conservation culture bring the life of these public structure last before reaching the total fustiness state. The declining conservation culture in Nigeria and its effect on public structures and all other parcels has come a major problem to the government at colorful situations. This study examines ways of perfecting conservation culture and its effect on quality of public parcels

A great portion of a nation wealth is apparent in the total value of its public parcels and structures; it’s also an important factor in the product of the structure to be saved. A inadequately maintained structure in a decaying terrain depresses the quality of live and contributes in some measures to anti social geste which threatens the socio” political terrain it finds itself in

According to Stephen( 2002) public parcels services infrequently perform as well as asked . The causes radiate from scarcities in design, construction, commissioning and conservation, numerous experimenters have also observed that the creators of conservation problems could be looked upon has caused during the design stage or construction stage or initiated during the operation stage or the stoner’s debonair stations( Bad conservation culture) which will ultimately deteriorate the condition of the property.

He further said that all these could be planned for during the design stage. conservation problems however do overload during the use of the structure, their causes might be during the design stage. These made Dekker( 2002) to assert that thinking on the conservation should start in the design phase. According to Speight( 2000), it’s at the design stage that the conservation burden can be appreciatively told for better or for worse. Where the developer fails to make acceptable consideration for minimizing conservation problems, it always turns out to be a big problem when the structure is ultimately enthralled for operation, the consideration for effective conservation as one of the parameters for the structure design. Seeley( 1997) also said that a skilful design can reduce the quantum of conservation work and also make it easier to perform, since good conservation begins on the delineation board.

Statement Of The Problem

Oladimeji( 1996) further described conservation of public parcels as the combination of any nonstop conduct carried out to retain a property in or restore it to an respectable condition. Onwuka( 1989) stated that conservation culture is concerned with the planning and control of construction coffers to insure that necessary repairs and renewal are carried out with maximum effectiveness and frugality to enhance the quality of the property. still, the experimenter is examining the ways of perfecting conservation culture and quality of public parcels in Nigeria.

Objects Of The Study

The following are the objects of this study

1. To examine ways of perfecting conservation culture in Nigeria.

2. To determine ways of enhancing the quality of public parcels through bettered conservation culture.

3. To determine the factors affecting conservation culture in Nigeria.

exploration QUESTIONS

2. What are the ways of perfecting conservation culture in Nigeria?

3. What are the ways of enhancing the quality of public parcels through bettered conservation culture?

4. What are the factors affecting conservation culture in Nigeria.

Significance Of The Study

The following are the significance of this study

1. The findings from this study will educate the government and policy makers, stakeholders in structure and the general public on the need for enhancement in conservation culture as a way of perfecting the quality of public property.

2. This exploration will also serve as a resource base to other scholars and experimenters interested in carrying out further exploration in this field latterly, if applied will go to an extent to give new explanation to the content

Compass/ Limitations Of The Study

This study on perfecting conservation culture and quality of public parcels in Nigeria will cover the station of Nigerians to the acceptable conservation of public parcels, looking at ways to ameliorate conservation culture with a view to ameliorate the quality of public parcels.

Limitation Of Study

fiscal constraint-inadequate fund tends to stymie the effectiveness of the experimenter in sourcing for the applicable accoutrements , literature or information and in the process of data collection( internet, questionnaire and interview).

Time constraint- The experimenter will contemporaneously engage in this study with other academic work. This accordingly will cut down on the time devoted for the exploration work.

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